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The focus of this research is to explore the experience of making serious decisions for ICU patients

Patients in ICU are often incapacitated and not able to make decisions for themselves and may require a representative from their family or surrogate decision maker to make the serious health-related decisions during their hospitalization in the ICU. Currently, the experience of decision making for the families of ICU patients in Saudi Arabia is unknown. Understanding this experience will help healthcare providers to provide better care for the patients and their families. ICU care providers often fail to direct attention or care to their patients family and mainly focus on delivering optimal care to the patients themselves. Providing adequate information and time to the patients families may them in choosing the appropriate option to achieve the desired patients outcomes. Decisional regret might be experienced when patients and or their families fail to achieve the desired patients outcomes. Decisional regret may negatively impact the patientsfamilies which may negatively influence the patients response to the treatment regimen.
Decision-making process might be influenced by many factors such as culture and the socioeconomic status, because of that, I thought that exploring the decision-making experience among the families of ICU patientsin Saudi Arabia will help in better understand the needs of these families in order to achieve their desired patients goals. Achieving the desired goal may or may not reduce the insedense of decisional regret.
The main focus of this reserch is to explore and understand the phenomenon of making serious health-related decisions for a loved one who is not able to make thoses decisions by themselves. Up to date, littel is known about the experience of the families of ICU patients in Saudi Arabia, the findings of this current study will help in minimize this gap in the literture.